This draft will be 13 rounds, with all forty-eight owners making one pick a day. The draft will run "Snake Style" (Round Two will run 48-1, Round Three will run 1-48, Round Four will run 48-1, etc. etc.) Draft slots will be 15 minutes each in order to accommodate 48 picks a day. The draft will run every day for 13 days from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time). Once we have all 48 spots filled and the draftboard is posted, we'll allow a three-day window for folks to swap draft positions if they choose. I understand some people will not be able to draft at some periods during the day or evening - this will give them the opportunity to make that adjustment. Once the draft begins, it won't stop (barring a major emergency). If you think you won't be able to make your pick on time, USE A PROXY. Let the folks that draft after you know and they can make your pick for you. Honestly though, I don't think there will be much of a problem in this theme since every player that you can draft will be "Hall-of-Fame" caliber. It's not like if you're fifteen minutes late for your selection that you're going to end up with Bud Weiser…lol.

In this theme, clones will be allowed. If you end up with three "Willie Mays'" in your outfield, so be it. If you end up with a pitching staff of nothing but Braves Pitchers, well then there you go. Here are the specifics that I'd like to use:

All teams will play in "Nationals Park." I wanted every team to use the same park and "WhatIfSports Park" just seemed so cold and generic for me. Therefore, "Nationals Park" is about as "middle of the road" as you can get. No great advantage for home-run hitters over speedsters or vice versa. No great advantage for strikeout pitchers over contact pitchers or vice versa.

EVERY TEAM WILL DRAFT AND USE A 5-MAN STARTING ROTATION. At the end of the regular season, all five pitchers must have thrown over 200 IP's or your team doesn't make it to the playoffs. Every Starting Pitcher on the list has 200 or more IP's at their disposal so it shouldn't be a problem. Put their "Call Bullpen" ratings on 1 or 2 and you should be alright.

EDIT: Every Starting Pitcher must have a minimum of 30 Starts as well as have a minimum of 200 Innings Pitched by the end of the 162-Game season or that team will not make the playoffs.

EVERY TEAM WILL DRAFT AND USE ONE CLOSER. Regardless of how the Closer is performing, please leave them in the Closer position for the entire season. The main point of this theme is to see how they fare for a full 162-game ride.

EVERY TEAM WILL DRAFT AND USE ONE POSITION PLAYER FOR ALL EIGHT POSITIONS - AND PLAY THEM AT THE POSITION THAT THEY'RE RATED FOR DURING THE SEASON YOU DRAFT (i.e., 1935 Jimmie Foxx will play First Base…not Catcher). There will be no Plate Appearance or At-Bat minimums to meet, but considering the bench that everyone will be playing with, you'll want to play your Starters every inning of every game. Every Position Player on the list (with the exception of 1980 George Brett) has a minimum of 550 PA's at their disposal. Fatigue "might" start showing up sometime during the season for some but they all should be able to "gut out" a full 162-Game season. For the person who drafts the 1980 George Brett (it was such a great year, I couldn't leave it out), you'll just have to ride him into whatever fatigue level he attains. Such is the danger of drafting him.

I've come up with a "Bench" and "Bullpen" that everyone will be required to use to fill out their rosters. We'll all have the same guys. None of them are anything special. The "Bench" will consist of: (1) 1979 Dave Rader, (2) 1958 Billy Klaus, (3) 2011 Cord Phelps, (4) 1914 Tiny Graham and (5) 1953 Dick Williams. The "Bullpen" will consist of: (1) 1998 A.J. Sager, (2) 1936 Ed Linke, (3) 1999 Andrew Lorraine, (4) 1938 Joe Beggs and (5) 1930 Chet Nichols. Everyone will have the same Designated Hitter: 1986 Pete Incaviglia.

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QUESTION #1 (from BUDDHAGAMER): I'm assuming the only instance when you can pick ahead of your scheduled time is if everyone ahead of you has already made their selection (so no picking early ahead of your time just because the person just ahead of you has selected but someone else has been skipped over already).

ANSWER: Correct.

QUESTION #2 (from HACKER7): Will defensive subs and rest when the team is well ahead or well behind be allowed?

ANSWER: Well, given the idea behind the theme, I'd really prefer your starters play as much as possible. I'd like to see what these guys will all do after playing a full 162-game schedule and getting as many AB's or IP's as possible.

QUESTION #2 (from NOCOMM999 and VARK48): Can a Starting Pitcher pitch out of the bullpen on his off-days? After giving it some thought, I think that would be alright if you want to do that. As long as by the end of the year all five of your Starters meet the "Games Started" and "Innings Pitched" requirements

ANSWER:After giving it some thought, I think that would be alright if you want to do that. As long as by the end of the year all five of your Starters meet the "Games Started" and "Innings Pitched" requirements.

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A couple of thoughts...

(1) Once the draft starts Saturday morning, there will be no trading of anything - spots or players. That's what we use "proxies" for;

(2) If you have the last two picks of any day, therefore, giving you the first two picks the following morning, you can go ahead and make all four picks that evening - provided everyone has made their selections up to that point. If anyone hasn't made their picks up to that point, then you have to wait until your draft time the next morning to make those selections. In other words, a person can be skipped during the day - but not overnight;

(3) There are currently no plans for doing a third league yet (i.e., combining the best eight or twelve against the other leagues best eight or twelve), but we'll see as the season goes if there's enough interest.